Year: 2007

  • RDVP Seminar: Paul Rankin (10/27/2004)

    Paul Ranking, RDVP fellow ’03, currently at Philips came to talk about his “Voices in your Hand” project, intertwining his general advice on how to succeed with a social venture (specifically, our RDVP projects). He started with a quick personal background, mentioning his Churchill Scholarship to study the impact of the internet on tribal cultures.…

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  • RDVP Finance SIG (10/28/2004)

    Dave McClure, Margarita, Mans, and I met to continue the discussion of the local “MicroVC” model that we started last week. Most of the time focused on the nitty-gritty financial details of the model. We looked at four different general types of investment: Businesses that serve the local economy in an urban setting Businesses that…

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